Lifecourse social conditions and racial and ethnic patterns of cognitive aging

Neuropsychology Review

Volumn 18, Issue 3 SPEC. ISS., 2008, Pages 223-254

  Glymour, M Maria ^a,b   Manly, Jennifer J ^c,d  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^d Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive aging; Discrimination; Disparities; Lifecourse social condition; Migration; Racial and ethnic patterns; Segregation; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGING; ANXIETY; ASIAN; BRAIN FUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHILD HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EDUCATION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EXERCISE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GENETIC RISK; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HISPANIC; HOMEOSTASIS; HOPELESSNESS; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INFANCY; LIFE EVENT; LIFE STRESS; MENTAL STRESS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; OCCUPATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; POPULATION MIGRATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOKING; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STEREOTYPY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGING; BRAIN; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREJUDICE; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 53949092997     PISSN: 10407308     EISSN: 15736660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11065-008-9064-z     Document Type: Review

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